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SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autodesk,
Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK) and ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD Design Co.,
Ltd., HK ZWCAD Software Ltd., and GLOBAL FORCE DIRECT, LLC. (doing
business as ZWCADUSA) (collectively, “ZWSoft”) have agreed to settle
lawsuits pending in The Hague and the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California. AutoCAD is Autodesk’s flagship product
and one of the most widely used design software tools in the world.

After discovering evidence indicating that ZWSoft had improperly used
AutoCAD intellectual property in developing its ZWCAD+ products,
Autodesk filed suit before The Hague in the Netherlands on February 19,
2014 (Case No. C/09/460412 / KG ZA 14-178) and in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of California on March 26, 2014 (Case
No. 14-cv-1409-EJD). In these lawsuits, Autodesk alleged that the
AutoCAD source code had been misappropriated and improperly used when
developing ZWCAD+.

As a result of this discovery, ZWSoft’s CEO, Truman Du, has publicly
acknowledged ZWSoft’s error and agreed to stop selling, licensing, or
otherwise making available ZWCAD+ from all markets, effective
immediately. The parties have entered into a binding settlement to
resolve their pending lawsuits, with an undisclosed sum provided to
Autodesk.

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